The first extended analysis of selectivity policies of important bilateral and multilateral aid donors, this book combines a policy-analytical with a quantitative-empirical approach. Bringing out the conflicts that may exist between foreign assistance agendas and the desire of governments in developing countries to set priorities for their national

Wil Hout is an Associate Professor of World Development at the Institute of Social Studies in The Hague (The Netherlands) and currently serves as Dean of the Institute. He is the author of Capitalism and the Third World, co-editor (with Jean Grugel) of Regionalism Across the North-South Divide and co-editor of three Dutch-language volumes on issues of international relations and political science.

1. Introduction 2.The Paradigm Shift in Development Assistance 3. The World Bank and Performance-based Allocation 4. The Netherlands and the Selection of Recipient Countries 5. The United States and the Millennium Challenge Account 6.Selectivity and Good Governance in the United Kingdom, Denmarkand the European Union 7. Quantitative-empirical Analyses of World Bank, Dutch and U.S. Aid Selectivity 8. Conclusion